ISLAMOPHOBIA: Media, Propoganda & Perception - article collection
updated 4/2/07
64 Journalists Killed in 2003 http://www.palestinechronicle.com/story.php?sid=20040311130126711
100 Years of Anti-Muslim and Anti-Arab Stereotyping, Mazin B. Qumsiyeh, http://www.ibiblio.org/prism/jan98/anti_arab.html
A Dark Storm Cloud Is Looming Over the Future of American Media http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0602-13.htm
A Devil Theory of Islam, Edward Said http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=19960812&s=said&c=1
A License for Power, Paul Starr http://www.prospect.org/print/V14/5/starr-p.html
A Nasty Taste of Bigotry, Ali John Comegys, http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/book_review_a_nasty_taste_of_bigotry/
Adham Center for Television Journalism http://www.adhamonline.com/
Al Jazeera Not Able to Gain U.S. Distribution http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117953878.html?categoryid=10&cs=1
Alladin film http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/tam/morenews/P4650/
Ayaan Hirsi Ali - One side of the story http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17204802/site/newsweek/
The American Media, Islam and Arabs http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=16524
The American Muslim and Islamist Intentions for the U.S., Daniel Pipes http://www.danielpipes.org/blog/168
An Analysis of Anti-Islamic Polemics, Dr. Habib Siddiqui http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/an_analysis_of_anti_islamic_polemics/
Anti-Muslim Rhetoric Undercuts Moderates, Salam al Marayati http://www.mpac.org/news_article_display.aspx?ITEM=306
Arab Images in Movies Matter http://www.ethicsdaily.com/article_detail.cfm?AID=562
Arab Stereotypes & American Educators, Marvin Wingfield & Bushra Karaman, http://www.adc.org/education/arabstrarticle.htm
Arab Images in Movies Matter, http://www.ethicsdaily.com/article_detail.cfm?AID=562
Arabs and Muslims Are Victims of Anti-Semitism, James Zogby http://www.arabnews.com/?page=7ǧion=0&article=44346&d=5&m=5&y=2004
Army Halts Media Campaign, Brian Bender http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2003/10/15/army_halts_media_campaign/
Ask No Questions http://www.sundayherald.com/40672
The Asymmetrical Rhetoric of War and Peace, Gary North http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/the_asymmetrical_rhetoric_of_war_and_peace/
Assuming the Right to Intervene, Norman Solomon http://www.fair.org/media-beat/040304.html
Attitudes of Ignorance, Parvez Ahmed http://www.iviews.com/Articles/articles.asp?ref=CD0408-2420
AUDIO: Media Misrepresentation of Islam and Muslims http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VZOSjd8IBU
Awful Truth, Russell Baker http://www.nybooks.com/articles/article-preview?article_id=16730
BBC Accused of Inciting Attacks Against Muslims http://www.muslimnews.co.uk/index/press.php?pr=166
Beware of new wave of anti-Muslim feeling, Rev. Alex Awad http://gbgm-umc.org/global_news/full_article.cfm?articleid=1139
Beyond the Myth of Objectivity, Jay Davis http://www.medialit.org/reading_room/article48.html
Big Lies, Joe Conason http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2003/08/18/conason_one/index_np.html
Big Media, Bill Moyers http://www.commondreams.org/views03/1010-13.htm
Bridges TV, American Muslim Television Goes National http://www.voanews.com/english/2006-11-08-voa36.cfm
British Media Portrayals of Muslims, William Conte, http://web.mit.edu/cms/reconstructions/communications/ukmuslims.html
Bush Helps CBS, CBS Helps Bush http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0123-08.htm
Bush Cartel Ministry of Propaganda http://www.buzzflash.com/editorial/03/11/edi03002.html
Bush Doublespeak, Ruth Rosen http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0714-10.htm
Bush Speak: A Weapon of Mass Destruction, John Goldammer http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0401/S00032.htm
Bush Turns Increasingly to Language of Religion, David L. Greene, http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0210-06.htm
Bush’s Speech on Arab TV http://www.muslimwakeup.com/mainarchive/000781.php#more
Can America Spin Away Anti-U.S. Hatred in Islamic Countries?, Ivan Eland http://www.independent.org/tii/news/031014Eland.html
Cartoon Furore Sparks Media Debate on Freedom of Speech http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L03596978.htm
Character Myth, Renana Brooks http://www.commondreams.org/views03/1212-09.htm
Challenging Ignorance on Islam: A Ten-Point Primer for Americans, Gary Leupp http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/challenging_ignorance_on_islam_a_ten_point_primer_for_americans/
Clarity Media Group Pulls Anti-Palestinian Ad http://www.islamophobia.org/news.php?readmore=34
Clarke and the Media Failures of 9-11 http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0329-13.htm
The Clear Channel Controversy, One Year On (Why Howard Sterns Woes Are Your Woes, Too), Maureen Farrell http://www.buzzflash.com/farrell/04/03/far04009.html
CNN and the Truth http://www.buzzflash.com/editorial/04/04/edi04026.html
Common Sense and Memes, Leon Felkins http://perspicuity.net/common/comsense.html
Common Western Stereotypes About Islam and the Middle East http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/globalconnections/mideast/questions/types/
Corporate Propaganda Machine, Mick Youther http://www.interventionmag.com/cms/modules.php?file=article&name=News&op=modload&sid=707
Communicating For Justice http://www.medialit.org/reading_room/article107.html
Conflict of Interest Corrupting the Washington Post http://makethemaccountable.com/podvin/media/031102_ConflictOfInterest.htm
Confronting Religious Intolerance, Ali Asani, http://www.aicongress.org/tolerance/asani1.htm
Conservative Bias, Michael Arvey http://www.onlinejournal.com/Media/031004Arvey/031004arvey.html
Corporate Propaganda Machine http://www.interventionmag.com/cms/modules.php?file=article&name=News&op=modload&sid=707
Cost of Casual Racism, Rodger Mitton, http://www.themodernreligion.com/assault/casual-racism.html
Countering Islamophobia http://www.iviews.com/Articles/articles.asp?ref=IC0504-2662
Coverage of the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict http://www.pmwatch.org/pmw/reports/newsnight/021903.html
Covering Conflict: How the News Media Handles Ethnic Controversy, Ira Rifkin http://www.medialit.org/reading_room/article382.html
Dance of Deception James Wall http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/dance_of_deception/
Dangers of stereotyping http://www.culturalsavvy.com/stereotyping.htm
Dark Mirror of Islam, Richard Webster http://www.richardwebster.net/thedarkmirrorofislam.html
Detecting Disinformation, Gregory Sinaisky http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/ED03Ak02.html
The Dehumanization of American Muslims, Tariq Nelson http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/the_dehumanization_of_american_muslims/
Disinformation Campaign, Phillip Knightly http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4270014,00.html
Disinformation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disinformation
Domination Effect, David Miller http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0108-09.htm
Dog Bites Man Newsworthy Too http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/dog_bites_man_newsworthy_too/
The Dumbest Story Ever Written, John Chuckman http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/the_dumbest_story_ever_written/
Edward R. Murrow’s Speech on Media 1958 http://www.rtnda.org/resources/speeches/murrow.shtml
Effects of Religious Stereotyping, Chana Schonberg http://www.sinc.sunysb.edu/Stu/lmarfogl/project/effects_rs.html
Effect of U.S. Media on Perceptions of Islam and Muslims http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=1&article_id=20910
etymology of the Word God http://wahiduddin.net/words/name_god.htm
Europe Cringes at Bush “Crusade” Against Terrorists, Peter Ford, http://www.csmonitor.com/2001/0919/p12s2-woeu.html
Ex BBC Chief Accuses British Government of Intimidation http://www.muslimnews.co.uk/news/news.php?article=6853
Faux Journalism Is the White House’s New Ally, Frank Rich http://www.iht.com/cgi-bin/generic.cgi?template=articleprint.tmplh&ArticleId=512235
FCC’s Indecency Witchhunt http://www.opednews.com/kall030604_fcc_indecency.htm
Fiction Hits Home http://www.metrotimes.com/editorial/story.asp?id=6173
Film Industry Observations, John W. Cones, http://www.homevideo.net/FIRM/observe.htm
FILM “The Stone Merchant” http://www.adnki.com/index_2Level_English.php?cat=CultureAndMedia&loid=8.0.344734679&par=
FILM “Aladdin” http://arts.uwaterloo.ca/FINE/juhde/white951.htm
FILM “Fahrenheit 9/11” Michael Moore is Ready for His Close Up http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/20/movies/20SHEN.html
- Christianity Today Review http://www.christianitytoday.com/movies/reviews/fahrenheit911.html
- Less is Moore http://www.suntimes.com/output/eb-feature/cst-ftr-cannes18.html
FILM “Sum of All Fears”, http://www.islamonline.net/English/artculture/2002/06/article06.shtml
FILM “Rules of Engagement”, http://www.adc.org/action/2000/11aprilb2000.htm
FILM “Executive Decision”, http://www.kstatecollegian.com/issues/v100/sp/n115/cam-Executive-Decision-abd.html
FILM “The Siege”, http://www.fruvous.com/news/981115nw.html AND http://www.wpi.edu/News/TechNews/981110/p1_muslim.html
FILM: “Islamic Mein Kampf” produced by the David Horowitz Foundation http://www.terrorismawareness.org/islamic-mein-kampf/ - absolute propoganda - threatening music - extremist quotes - superimposing photos of nazi’s and nazi symbols with Muslim and Islamic, comparing Ahmadinejad and Hitler
FILM: “Obsession: Radical Islam’s War With the West” produced by Aish Ha Torah - our regularly updated article on this film at http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/obsession_radical_islams_war_with_the_west/0010881 - another nasty propoganda film
Fine Art of Propaganda http://archives.mcad.edu/POLITPROP/palace/library/fineart.html
Fog of War Talk http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=16497
Forget Reds Under the Bed, There’s Arabs in the Attic, Hamid Dabashi http://student.cs.ucc.ie/cs1064/jabowen/IPSC/articles/article0004502.txt
From Theological Rivalry to Creation of the Other, Ibrahim Kalin http://www.islamonline.net/english/Contemporary/2003/04/Article01a.shtml
Foe isn’t Islam, it’s Binladenism, Abdul Cader Asmal http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/foe_isnt_islam_its_binladenism/
Fog of War Still Hasn’t Lifted http://www.torontostar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1080169813898&call_pageid=970599109774&col=Columnist969907624636
Free Press: A Comforting Myth http://makethemaccountable.com/podvin/media/031112_AComfortingMyth.htm
FREE SPEECH
-Aljazeera under Fire in Faluja http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/3B3253DC-F741-4F90-B568-2C9CBDEFECD4.htm
-Lesson of Free Speech Lost As U.S. Closes Iraqi Paper http://www.freep.com/voices/columnists/eboud9_20040409.htm
-U.S. Wants Al Jazeera Out of Faluja http://www.islamonline.net/English/News/2004-04/09/article06.shtml
Freedom as Ideology and Counterfeit Coinage: Why We Must Attend to the Meaning of Words, Jeremy henzell-Thomas http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/freedom_as_ideology_and_counterfeit_coinage_why_we_must_attend_to_the_meani/
Future of Al Jazeera http://www.tbsjournal.com/khanfar.htm
Brigitte Gabriel http://www.newshounds.us/2007/02/07/another_antimuslim_extremists_presented_as_mainstream_on_hannity_colmes.php
Gulf Media Mood, Abdallah Schleiffer http://www.tbsjournal.com/omnibus.htm
Hate and the Haters Who Spread It http://www.muslimwakeup.com/archives/000923.php
Hate speech, propaganda alive and thriving, Scott Richard Lyons http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/hate_speech_propaganda_alive_and_thriving/
Helen Thomas on the Media and the Iraq War http://www.thenation.com/doc/20060327/thomas
Hollywood updates history of Battle of Britain: Tom Cruise won it all on his own http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/film/news/story.jsp?story=510475
Hollywood stereotypes http://www.bhopal.net/oldsite/presscoverage/houstonchronicle/archive/19910126-hollywood.html
How M16 Sold the Iraq War, Nicholas Rufford http://cryptome.org/mi6-psyop.htm
How to create an enemy, Deepak Chopra http://www.intentblog.com/archives/2005/09/how_to_create_a.html
How You Can Tell When a Politician Is Lying, leon Felkins http://www.magnolia.net/~leonf/politics/pol-lies.html
How Islam Bashing Got Cool, Deborah Caldwell http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/how_islam_bashing_got_cool/
How Media Forms Perceptions, Tayyibah Taylor, http://www.mwlusa.org/publications/others/mediaperceptions.htm
How Muhammad Migrated to America, Omar al Qattan http://www.counterpunch.org/qattan01112003.html
How the NewsHour Changed History, Norman Solomon http://www.fair.org/media-beat/040415.html
How Violent Myths Resurface, Walter Wink http://www.medialit.org/reading_room/article95.html
Human Rights Are As Important As Ever, Mary Robinson, http://www.globalpolicy.org/intljustice/icc/2002/0621mary.htm
HUMOR: Media Slant http://youth.ibn.net/humor3.asp?ID=48
If Hutus and Tutsis Were Muslim - the Media Would Say So http://www.twf.org/News/Y1997/Hutus.html
Ignorance Fuels Hatred of Muslim, Charles Haynes, http://www.themodernreligion.com/assault/ignorance.html
In A Hall of Mirrors, Brian Keefer http://www.campaigndesk.org/archives/000051.asp
Incitement to Violence http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,1924197,00.html
Information Warfare in Miami http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=17293
Information and Its Counterfeits: Propaganda, Misinformation and Disinformation http://www.library.jhu.edu/elp/useit/evaluate/counterfeit.html
Information Warfare, Ilyse Hogue http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=17293
Intellectual Thoroughness of Three-Year-Olds: The Crisis of Critical Inquiry, Pamela Taylor http://www.muslimwakeup.com/mainarchive/000180.php
Interview with “Framing” Expert Professor George Lakoff http://www.buzzflash.com/interviews/04/01/int04003.html
International Concern Over Jailed Journalist in Iran http://www.muslimnews.co.uk/news/news.php?article=7213
Iran, a chronology of disinformation http://www.counterpunch.org/leupp02172007.html
Is All This Hatred Really Necessary?, Raff Ellis http://yellowtimes.org/article.php?sid=1084
Is Islam Endangering ‘Europeanness’? http://abcnews.go.com/International/story?id=289575&page=1
Is America Watching a Different War? http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/08/03/1359222
Islam in the Media: Neo-Orientalizing Images, Sonja Hegasy http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/islam_in_the_media_neo_orientalizing_images/
Islam In The Western Media, Bashy Quraishi http://www.multicultural.net/newsletter/article/issue3-bashy.htm
Islam, Muslims & the Media, Sound Vision, http://www.soundvision.com/Info/media/stateofmuslimmedia.asp
Islam as Other, Jay Kinney, http://saif_w.tripod.com/explore/stereo/st_islam_as_other.htm
Islam and Christianity: Diatribe or Dialogue? Ismail al Faruqi, http://www.interfaithdialog.org/Articles/Al-Faruqi.pdf
Islam Through Western Eyes, Edward Said http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=19800426&s=19800426said&c=1
Islamic Fascists?, Sheila Musaji http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/islamic_fascists1/
Islamic or Muslim Terrorism and Extremism: Are they all Contradictions in Terms?, Jeremy Henzell-Thomas http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/islamic_or_muslim_terrorism_and_extremism_are_they_all_contradictions_in_te/
Islamaphobia: the West’s Neo-Fascism? http://folksinger.com/islamaphobia.htm
Islamophobia: Acceptable Face of Anti-Semitism http://www.jaihoon.com/articles/islamaphobia.htm
Islamaphobia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamophobia
Islamophobia in the Media Since September 11th, Christopher Allen http://www.honestreports.com/islamophobia.asp
Islamaphobia On the Rise Everywhere http://www.nationaudio.com/News/DailyNation/23012004/Comment/Comment2301200412.html
Islamophobia, Panic and Public Media http://www.mediachannel.org/articles/2006/10/04/Islamophobia,_Panic_and.html
Islamaphobia Spreading Far and Wide http://news.ibn.net/newsframe.asp?url=http://www.ipsnews.net/interna.asp?idnews=26764
Islamophobia and the media http://english.ohmynews.com/articleview/article_view.asp?no=344924&rel_no=1
Israel, Racism, and the Canadian Media http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?ItemID=10617
It’s Not Jihad, It’s Unholy Hirabah, Jim Guirard Daniel Pipes has built a career as a professionalӔ expert on Islam and Muslims. Irfan Khwaja in Daniel Pipes: Both Right and Wrong http://hnn.us/articles/1458.html
It’s the Media Stupid, Guy Reel http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0214-05.htm
It’s the Media Stupid, Ramzy Baroud It’s the Media Stupid, Ramzy Baroud http://www.iviews.com/Articles/articles.asp?ref=IV0604-2964
Journalists Find Many Ways to Kill Truth in Iraq http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0318-04.htm
Journalists Under Threat http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/ENGPOL300192004?open&of=ENG-USA
keynote Address to National Conference on Media Reform, Bill Moyers http://www.commondreams.org/views03/1112-10.htm
Koppell’s Cajones http://www.davidswanson.org/columns/koppel.htm
LABELS -Moderate-Liberal-Secular-Progressive-Fundamentalist-Militant-Reconstructionist-Wahabi-Salafi http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/labels_moderate_liberal_secular_progressive_fundamentalist_militant_reconst/
LANGUAGE - CULTURE & PERCEPTIONS - PROPOGANDA & DISINFORMATION - article collection http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/language_culture_perceptions_propaganda_disinformation/
Language and Meaning http://aliscot.com/ensenanza/1302/language.htm
Language of Control, Michael Arvey http://www.buzzflash.com/contributors/03/10/con03215.html
Language of Islamaphobia, Jeremy Henzell-Thomas, http://www.themodernreligion.com/assault/language.htm
Lessons in How to Lie About Iraq, Brian Eno http://politics.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,9115,1020528,00.html
Liberals Suck at Sales, Mike Bryan http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0501-11.htm
Linguistic Literalism of Four Year-Olds: Muslims Missing the Point, Pamela Taylor http://www.muslimwakeup.com/mainarchive/000187.php
Liberal Signs of Life, Eric Alterman http://www.thenation.com/docprint.mhtml?i=20030714&s=alterman
Liberalize the Media http://www.tompaine.com/feature2.cfm/ID/8248/view/print
License for Power, Paul Starr http://www.prospect.org/print/V14/5/starr-p.html
Made for TV Presidency, Colleen Redman http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0319-11.htm
Matrix of Ignorance, Gary Leupp http://www.counterpunch.org/leupp09132003.html
Mainstream Media Fails Itself, Peter Phillips http://www.counterpunch.org/phillips03042004.html
Malevolent Media, Beth Connover http://www.onlinejournal.com/Media/040104Conover/040104conover.html
Manufacturing Consent : The Political Economy of the Mass Media, Edward Herman & Noam Chomsky http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/~venu/chomsky.review.html
Manufacturing the News: A Report on Thomas Friedman, John Paul Jones http://yellowtimes.org/article.php?sid=898
Maturing Media http://www.tompaine.com/feature2.cfm/ID/10281/view/print
Media and Islamophobia http://www.newstatesman.com/200610160032
Media and the Muslims, Abul Kalam http://www.messageonline.org/2002junejuly/cover3.htm
The Media and Muslims, http://www.tompaine.com/feature2.cfm/ID/8484
MEDIA AND RELIGION IN THE ARAB/ISLAMIC WORLD, S. Abdallah Schleifer http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/media_and_religion_in_the_arab_islamic_world/
Media Asked Not to Call Miami Terror Suspects ‘Muslims’ http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/media_asked_not_to_call_miami_terror_suspects_muslims/
Media Bias in Coverage of Israel and Palestine http://usa.mediamonitors.net/content/view/full/28521
Media Bias in Coverage of Violence in Indonesia http://www.twf.org/News/Y2000/0115-Bias.html
Media Bias Is Alive and Well, Khalaf al Habtoon, http://www.habtoor.com/inmyownwords/html/issue43a.htm
Media Bias Fosters Bigotry, Parvez Ahmed http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/opinion/sfl-25forum23aug23,0,1299331.story?coll=sfla-news-opinion
Media Coverage of Religion, Jeff Cohen http://www.fair.org/articles/media-religion.html
Media Covers Israeli Deaths, Covers Up Palestinian Deaths http://www.bethlehemmedia.net/point1.htm
Media Double Standards: Isn’t Killing Arabs a Massacre? http://www.islamonline.com/cgi-bin/news_service/middle_east_full_story.asp?service_id=11003
Media Has Anti Muslim Bias http://media.guardian.co.uk/site/story/0,14173,1642321,00.html
Media Representation of Islam and Muslim Women http://www.trueislaam.free-online.co.uk/women/muslimwomen_media.htm
Media Report Card: Israel/Palestine Reporting http://www.ifamericansknew.org/download/merc2_brochure.pdf
Media Research Center http://www.webcom.com/lpease/media.htm
Media Terrorists http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m25859&hd=0&size=1&l=e
Media: the Most Powerful Weapon in the World http://wakeupfromyourslumber.blogspot.com/2006/03/most-powerful-weapon-in-world.html
Media War on Islam http://www.islamonline.com/cgi-bin/news_service/middle_east_full_story.asp?service_id=10478
The Medias Islamic Blind Spot http://archive.salon.com/tech/feature/2001/09/25/arabs_media/print.html
THE MEDIA’S SO-CALLED WAR ON ISLAMISTS, Omar Ricci http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/the_medias_so_called_war_on_islamists/
Media’s Obligation in Debunking Myths http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1991322
Mediating Islam and a mediated Islam by Dr. Farish A. Noor http://theamericanmuslim.org/2003sept_comments.php?id=392_0_22_30_C
Media War Comes Home http://www.mediachannel.org/views/dissector/mcalert195.shtml
Memetics and Society http://library.thinkquest.org/C004367/ce4.shtml?tqskip1=1
Memetics of Transhumanism http://www.aleph.se/Trans/Cultural/Memetics/trans_meme.html
Memories of Crusades Live On in Today’s War, Arthur Jones http://natcath.org/NCR_Online/archives2/2001d/102601/102601a.htm
Middle East Worst Region for Press Freedom, Marianne Stigset http://www.muslimnews.co.uk/news/news.php?article=6663
Mighty Windbags, David Brock http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2004/05/11/noise/index_np.html
Misleading America, Shaun Waterman http://www.commondreams.org/views03/1020-11.htm
Mimetic Theory and Ethnic Conflict http://theol.uibk.ac.at/cover/bulletin/xtexte/bulletin11-7.html
Misleading a Nervous America to the Wrong Conclusion http://www.smirkingchimp.com/print.php?sid=10401
Misreading Islam, Michael Hersch http://www.alternet.org/story/20488/
Muhammad Was a Terrorist?, Juan Cole, http://www.theamericanmuslim.org/2002nov_comments.php?id=184_0_16_0_C
Muslim Film Festival Opens a Window on Muslim World http://news.ncmonline.com/news/view_article.html?article_id=02a6540db016e5748f7f4e4449ff722e
The Muslims Are Here! The Muslims Are Here!, Sheila Musaji http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/the_muslims_are_here_the_muslims_are_here/
Muslims Shaping Own Image in the Media http://www.altmuslim.com/family_comments.php?id=866_0_16_0_C
Myths Debunked: The Liberal Media http://makethemaccountable.com/myth/LiberalMedia.htm
The Nature of Evil and Mimetic Warfare Against Islam: “Gnosticism” and “Traditionalism” as Weapons, Dr. Robert D. Crane http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/the_nature_of_evil_and_mimetic_warfare_against_islam_gnosticism_and_traditi/
New Media Company Focuses on Producing Top Quality Muslim and Diversity Content for TV and Film http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/new_media_company_focuses_on_producing_top_quality_muslim_and_diversity_con/
The Next Holocaust, Ziauddin Sardar http://www.newstatesman.com/200512050006
Not Fearing the Blame, Khalid Baig, http://www.themodernreligion.com/assault/rel.html
On the Iraq War, the Press Failed the Public http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/op-ed/goldsborough/20040419-9999-mz1e19golds.html
On the Rhetoric of the War on Terrorism, Kyle Fedler http://www.crosscurrents.org/Felder.htm
Only Dictators Ban Television News http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/150333_helenthomas30.html
Outrage at Administration Lying Misses a Crucial Point http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0610-02.htm
Overblown threat, fear, and Islamophobia http://www.freepress.org/departments/display/9/2007/2413
Oxymorons in the News Media, Enver Masud http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/oxymorons_in_the_news_media/
Palestinian Deaths Aren’t Headline Material at NY Times http://www.fair.org/activism/nyt-israel-headlines.html
PAUL COURTRIGHT & BOOK ON GANESHA
-Professor Receives Death Threats in Response to Book http://www.emorywheel.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2003/12/05/3fcf7d2594188
-Book Insults Elephant God Angry Hindus Say http://www.ajc.com/news/content/news/1103/08atwhindu.html
-Prof. Courtright Responds http://www.sandiego.edu/theo/risa-l/archive/msg07249.html
Political Airbrush, Bridget Gibson http://www.democraticunderground.com/articles/03/11/p/04_airbrush.html
Political Duplicity, Leon Felkins http://www.magnolia.net/~leonf/politics/pol-dupl.html
Political Memes http://www.buildfreedom.com/tl/tl075.shtml
Press and the Myths of War, Chris Hedges http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20030421&s=hedges
Press and Private Lynch http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20030707&s=eviatar
Press and the Myths of War http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20030421&s=hedges
Propaganda http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda
Propaganda and War, Edward Said http://www.mediamonitors.net/edward37.html
Protocols of the Elders of Islam http://www.altmuslim.com/opinion_comments.php?id=1223_0_25_0_C18
Rationalization http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rationalization
Relativism and the Constructive Aspects of Perception, http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/relativism/supplement1.html
Resist the Official Pol-speak of Bush’s ‘War on Terror’, Simon Tisdall http://www.commondreams.org/views03/1104-06.htm
Rewriting History to Fit the Agenda http://www.couplescompany.com/Features/Politics/PropagandaEssay/3.htm#_ftnref1
Reel Bad Arabs, Interview With Jack Shaheen, http://www.thirdway.org/files/articles/antiarab.html
Religious Texts: Why A Different Yardstick for Muslims?, Dr. Habib Siddiqui http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/why_a_different_yardstick_for_muslims/
Report Shows Media Bias to Islam http://media.guardian.co.uk/site/story/0,14173,1642321,00.html
Rogue By Any Other Name: The Adjustable Language of Foreign Policy, Mark Strauss http://www.carnegieendowment.org/publications/index.cfm?fa=view&id=598
Roots of the West’s Fear of Islam, Edward Said http://www.arabamerican.com/EdwardSaid.html
Roots of Misconception: Euro-American Perceptions of Islam Before and After 9/11 - INTRODUCTION, Ibrahim Kalin http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/roots_of_misconception_euro_american_perceptions_of_islam_before_and_after/
- Roots of Misconception: The Legacy of Orientalism and the American Context: Islam as the Otherђ of America? http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/roots_of_misconception_the_legacy_of_orientalism_and_the_new_world_islam_as/
- Roots of Misconception: From Theological Rivalry to Cultural Differentiation: Perceptions of Islam During the Middle Ages http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/roots_of_misconception_from_theological_rivalry_to_cultural_differentiation/
- Roots of Misconception: The 19th Century Perceptions of Islam: From the Pilgrim to the Orientalist http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/roots_of_misconception_the_19th_century_perceptions_of_islam_from_the_pilgr/
Rules of Disinformation http://www.proparanoid.com/truth.htm#25r
Rules for Reporting Islam http://www.mwaw.net/2007/01/29/rules-for-reporting-islam/
SALMAN RUSHDIE & THE SATANIC VERSES
-Blasphemy, Salman Rushdie and Freedom of Expression http://www.crf-usa.org/terror/rushdie.htm
see also topic “Answers to Some Questions non-Muslims Ask” at http://www.theamericanmuslim.org/2003nov_comments.php?id=447_0_23_0_C
Semantics of Empire, M. Shahid Alam http://msalam.net/Pol/PolJanuary172004.html
Sleeper Cell TV Drama Awakens Fears in American Muslims http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051202/NEWS05/512020314
Slogans http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slogan
Soul Searching Time in the American Media http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=16524
The special pair of spectacles, Shahzad Aziz http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/the_special_pair_of_spectacles/
Speech Misheard Around the World, Orlando Patterson http://www.agonist.org/story/2005/1/22/13059/0599
Spinning the Past, Threatening the Future, Norman Solomon http://www.fair.org/media-beat/040318.html
State of Muslim Media, Sound Vision, http://www.soundvision.com/info/media/stateofmuslimmedia.asp
State of News Media 2004 http://www.stateofthemedia.org/narrative_overview_eight.asp?media=1
Stereotyping and Misunderstanding in Hollywood Islam http://natcath.org/NCR_Online/archives2/1998d/112098/112098h.htm
Stereotyping http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stereotyping
Stereotypes of Muslims as Other, Farish Noor, http://www.jamaat-e-islami.org/rr/stereotype_noor.html
Stop the Madness http://rationalism.org.uk/gender.html
Strategy of Lies, Gar Smith http://www.earthisland.org/project/newsPage2.cfm?newsID=491&pageID=177&subSiteID=44
Struggling Against Stereotypes, http://www.pluralism.org/ocg/CDROM_files/islam/struggling.php
Stunning Victory in Propaganda War http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&call_pageid=971358637177&c=Article&cid=1062972608199
Systematically Applying the Language of Racism to Dehumanize the Palestinians, Hanan Ashrawi, http://www.mafhoum.com/press/hanan2.htm
Tackling Misconceptions of Islam, Brett Martin, http://www.theamericanmuslim.org/2002feb_comments.php?id=158_0_6_0_C
Taking sides: Professional Opinions Diverge on Depth, Slant, Accuracy of News Reports from Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Tom Kisken http://www.mpac.org/popa_article_display.aspx?ITEM=461
Terms of Engagement, Eric Margolis http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0727-01.htm
Terrorism: A World Ensnared By a Word, John Whitbeck http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0218-12.htm
This Is Your Brain on Propaganda, Maureen Farrell http://www.buzzflash.com/farrell/03/12/far03005.html
This Is Your Brain on Public Relations, Kenny ausubel http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=17034
To Whom Shall We Give Access to Our Waterholes?, Farid Esack http://www.crosscurrents.org/Esack.htm
Tolkien, The Return of the Stereotype, Haroon Moghul http://www.altmuslim.com/opinion_comments.php?id=1174_0_25_0_C
Turning Jews Into Muslims: The Untold Story of the Muselmanner, Parvez Manzoor, http://www.pmanzoor.info/Muselmann.htm
There Is No Media, Mike Hersch http://www.onlinejournal.com/Media/050303Hersh/050303hersh.html
They Shoot Journalists Don’t They?, Norman Solomon http://www.counterpunch.org/solomon03112004.html
T.V., Truth and Technomania, Interview With Hamza Yusuf http://www.messageonline.org/interviews/hamza.htm
U.N. Official Deplores Spread of Islamophobia http://www.commondreams.org/headlines02/0319-04.htm
U.N. calls for combatting anti-Islam campaign http://www.islam-online.net/English/News/2005-04/12/article06.shtml
Understanding Islam: Perils and Prospects (Memetic Warfare and the Perils of Liberal Islam), Robert D. Crane, http://www.theamericanmuslim.org/2003jul_comments.php?id=334_0_21_0_C
U.S. and Muslims, Creating an Enemy http://gbgm-umc.org/Response/articles/USMuslim.html
U.S. Media Caved In To Bush Agenda, Eric Margolis http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0615-04.htm
U.S. Press and Haiti, Norman Solomon http://www.counterpunch.org/solomon03042004.html
U.S. Videos, For TV News, Come Under Scrutiny http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F30D13FE3D550C768DDDAA0894DC404482
The Utility of Islamic Imagery in the West: An American Case Study, J. A. Progler http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/the_utility_of_islamic_imagery_in_the_west_an_american_case_study_part_ii/
VIDEO: Ahmed Bedier on Factors on Negative Perceptions of Islam in America http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDagea_9J5E
VIDEO: The Media’s Double Standard About Islam by Jamal Badawi http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0PvZKbzyvE
VIDEO: Planet of the Arabs - propoganda in film http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2515888478133627023&q=label%3Aislam
VIDEO: Sherman Jackson, Covering Islam and Muslims in America http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-311638675392700709&q=label%3Aislam
VIDEO: Zionism and Image of Muslims in Western Media, Abdullah Schleiffer http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6590172818397961970&q=islam
VIDEO: Stereotyping Islam http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogjm0DC-xAQ
VIDEO: The Image of Muslim Women in the American media http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1MzLbHWqFc
VIDEO: Desmond Tutu rejects media characterization of Islam and Muslims as extremist or terrorist http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xt7e1jYwh6c
VIDEO: Resisting the drums of war http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17456.htm - describes how to counter warmongering appeals
Wakeup Time, Eric Alterman http://www.prospect.org/print-friendly/print/V15/3/alterman-e.html
War Is Peace, Jennifer Buckendorff http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2003/09/30/deception/index_np.html
War of Media Deception http://www.iviews.com/Articles/articles.asp?ref=IV0608-3068
War of the Memes http://www.truthlaidbear.com/archives/2002/07/08/the_war_of_the_memes.php
War On Truth, John Pilger http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=21&ItemID=3976
War of the Memes, Bill Walker http://freedom.orlingrabbe.com/lfetimes/meme_war.htm
War Rhetoric’s Toll on Democracy, Bruce Williams http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0412-12.htm
Western Media Coverage of Islam, Sayyed Yousif al-Khoei, http://www.honestreports.com/documents/islamophobia.pdf
What Is a Meme? http://www.straightdope.com/columns/040213.html
What Liberal Media, Eric Alterman http://www.tompaine.com/feature.cfm/ID/7334
Whatever Happened to the News, Daniel Halen http://www.medialit.org/reading_room/article441.html
When Language Grows Darker and Darker, Sister Joan Chittister http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/when_language_grows_darker_and_darker/
Why are Muslims the Dregs of the World, Mere Scum at the Bottom of the Barrel?, Dr. Robert D. Crane http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/why_are_muslims_the_dregs_of_the_world_mere_scum_at_the_bottom_of_the_barre/
Why Have Muslim Scholars Been Undervalued Throughout Western History, Ahmed Tahrabishy http://www.islamfortoday.com/scholars.htm
Why the Media Owe You an Apology on Iraq, Rick Mercier http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0328-08.htm
Why Al Jazeera Coverage is Bad http://www.muslimwakeup.com/archives/000768.php
World Press Freedom Day: A Bad Day for Journalists Worldwide http://www.worldrevolution.org/newsfeature/6
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